The Gallant Son A Dad

It is a story near about half a decades ago. There was a jungle-side village named Rajeshpur. Once a school going boy saw a pangolin on the way while going to school. He was very curious to know every thing and was securing first position in the class. His name was Ramgopal who was a student of class VI in the village High school, his native place. His father Shyam Babu was a train driver. Ramgopal was liked by everyone because of his talent. Moreover he was a good swimmer and sports champion too. He was also a good debater and most obedient of all superiors.

Ramgopal was always thinking over that animal as he saw for the first time in his life. On a Sunday wintry morning he went running to the Banyan tree and marked the pangolin with it's offspring who were sunning themselves under the tree. But he worked out his brain so as to have a easy catch of the pangolin and it's baby. So he came back home and set on to the nearby dense forest in search of a bigger ant hill. Eventually Ramgopal got one and started digging with his spade. The ant hill was 10 feet tall. He dug out the entire hill and collected termites weighing about four kilograms. He loaded his gunny bag and brought that home.

Then Ramgopal ordered the village carpenter to make cage made of mango wood having an entrance door with locking system. Within a weeks time the cage was prepared whereto wheels were attached. Then he rolled up the wheeled cage to the tree under which pangolins were living. It was afternoon.  Pangoes were taking rest inside their furrow. Ram placed the cage under the tree. Then he kept the polythene bag filled in with termites and white ants. He tied up a plastic rope with the gate of the cage measuring six hundred metres long and held on the other end and sat at a distance nearby a jungly bush. While sun god was just going to set down the pangoes came out of their den and smelling their choice food both mom and child pangoes rushed into the cage. No sooner they entered into the cage than Ramgopal pulled the pull rope and the pangoes were captured. Then Ramgopal brought back the cage to home and provided them with food and drink.  As he was an intelligent student and well known of the fact from news papers and TV news that pangolins were smuggled by the poachers to foreign countries for commercial purpose, so he, after five days, informed the forest ranger through the Headmaster of his school.

Then the ranger arrived at his home and took over the pangolin mother and it's cub into his custody. By the by this this tidings spread over being highlighted by the social media wherefore Master Ramgopal was issued with a Appreciation Certificate by the Chief Conservator of Forests for his humanitarian quality for loving wild animals and taking care of them. The Headmaster of the School a also awarded with five lakh rupees towards his student's wild life welfare deed. Ramgopal's father was also invited to the School by the Board of Directors to attend a special motivational function titled ' Conservation of wildlife and the role of students thereon'. Ramgopal's father reached home on leave and attended the function and got Immense of thanks for his son's activities. The get together was happily concluded with cordial applause of the audiences.

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